Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts: Sterling Publishers
出版地
New Delhi, India [新德里, 印度]
資料類型
專題研究論文=Research Paper
使用語言
英文=English
摘要
Time dwells in the depths of full mind. Deep inside us it interweaves the real and the unreal. Sacred time is the pure becoming, where the time of physics is no longer determinant. It is the flowing onward of the essence of life, a value centre in many principles of being, as we seek to create newer and even individualised eyes. The mind renews itself in the intuition of time. It is the laughter of the gods out of which emerge our newest sensibilities of expanding consciousness. IT brings a polytheistic instinct in a monotheistic thinking. Time is the big and beautiful of human knowledge that comprises the immeasurable infinite, away from the absolute silence concerning the meaning of life. It engulfs man eternally, in a now that has no end. The eternal (sanatana) of the infinite Being is Time that upholds (dharma), the cosmic and human order, the sanatana dharma of India.
Sanskrit has several words for time. The lexicon Amarakosa lists four: kala, dista, aneha and samaya. The word kals is derived from the root kal to calculate, enumerate. In the Atharvaveda and Satapatha Brahmana it is a fixed or right point of time, a space of time, time. It also signifies "time as leading to events (the causes of which are imperceptible to man), destiny, fate": from a sanctified time to the notion of destiny. The word dista for time is the appointed or assigned moment, fate, death. But disti is "auspicious juncture, good fortune, happiness" in the phrase distya vardhase (you are fortunate, I congratulate you on your luck). The third word, aneha time, basically means "incomparable, unattainable, unmenaced, unobstruccted". It is the enduring and the permanent in change. The fourth word samaya time" is explained as samyug eti ("appointed or proper time, right moment for doing anything, time")...
